Rail-clamp.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904 J TALBERT RAIL CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 14. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

JESSE TALBERT, OF l VAGONER, INDIAN TERRITORY,

RAIL-CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,851, dated August16, 1904, Application flied August 14, 1903. Serial No. 169.551. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ESSE TALBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVagoner, Creek Nation, Indian Territory. have invented newand useful Improvements in Rail- Clamps, of which the following is-aspecification.

Hy invention relates to certain improvements in railway joint-chairs. Ithas for its object to effect the joining of the rail-sections in asubstantial and effective manner and so as to prevent any pounding orpossible movement of said rail-sections at their points of union, thenumerous advantages arising from which are obvious. g

The nature of said invention consists of the unique construction of thechair, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed andspecifically pointed out by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure 1 is a broken partly side view and partly sectionalview thereof. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the chair detached fromthe rail-sections. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken through Fig. 1out of the plane of the joint or point of union between rail-sections.

In the carrying out of my invention I produce the chair 1, preferably,as shown, in a single casting, the lateral portions 2 each beingstraight or parallel to each other a certain portion of its area, as at2, while their remaining portions are flared or inclined outwardly anddownwardly, as at T, joining the base or bottom 3 at their extremedeclinations. The lastnamed points of union are such, however,especially upon the inner side of the chair, as to conform to andreceive the base or foot of each of two rail-sections, the latterabutting end for end therein, as presently disclosed. Also it is notedthat the cross-sectional area of the railreceiving chamber of the chairbelow the spline or partition therein is required to be such and isaccordingly provided for herein, as shown, as to snugly or closelyreceive the corresponding portions of meeting rail-sections, and thusprevent, as would otherwise follow, the breaking down of said spline orpartition from the weight exerted thereon by railway travel and theconsequent falling of the rail-sections. This has heretofore beenguarded against by the use of a split wedge driven in between aninclined bottom surface of the rail-section-receiving chamber of thechair and the under side of the rail-sections, with one branch of thesplit portion of the Wedge bent downward to engage the edge of saidchair and retain said wedge itself in place. All of this is obviated bythe use of my invention. Said chair has also therein about midway thealtitude of and integral with its straight or parallel portions 2 ahorizontal partition or spline 4 of suitable thickness and length, thesame terminating, however, preferably, short distances inwardly from theends of the chair proper. This partition or spline engages or entersslots 5, produced in the adjoining or abutting ends of the webs of therail-sections, thus serving, with the lateral portions of the chair, toeffectually guard said rail-sections at the joint thus formed fromvertical as well as lateral displacement and against any play asdistinguished from expansion and contraction, and thus prevent anypounding action thereon as the ear-wheels pass over the same, as wouldotherwise be the case, and consequently uneven or premature wear of therail-sections at the joint. It is also observed that the lateralportions of the chair abut solidly up against the under sides of thetread of the railsections, and thus serve to additionally brace thelatter at the joint and to further aid against the relative movement ofsaid railsections at that point, which it is of course necessary toavoid to prevent pounding action of the ear-wheels thereon.

It will be observed that latitude is allowed herein as to details, assuch may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from thespirit of my invention and said invention yet be protected.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim-as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A rail-joint chair having a laterally and downwardly flared socket, withan upwardopening vertical extension and a spline portion or partition ar'anged intermediately of flared portion of said chair having laterally-I0 the upper and lower terminals of said vertical openingspike-receiving notches. extension, and, itself, terminating; short dis-In testimony whereof I have hereunto set tances inward from the endterminals of the my hand in presence of two subscribing Witlatter, themeeting ends of the rail-sections nesses. having slots therein toreceive said spline or JESSE TALBERT. partition, said socket beingadapted to snugly Witnesses: Y

(J. E. CASTLE,

embrace the flanged base portions of said railsections and the outerlateral edges of the JOHN A. BURNS.

